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Key facts
- Type
- Daily newspaper , Company type: Private
- Format
- Blanket (54.6 cm x 40.65 cm)
- Owner s
- Repurchased shares (25%), Murayama family (21.02%; 10% through the KOSETSU Museum of Art), Ueno family (total 14.22% by Shōichi Ueno's death in 2016), TV Asahi (11.88%), Toppan (7.31%), Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdcorp (2.31%)
- Founder s
- Murayama Ryōhei [ ja ] , Ueno Riichi
- Founded
- January 25, 1879 ; 147 years ago ( 1879-01-25 )
- Political alignment
- Liberalism ( Japanese ) Social liberalism Centre-left
- Headquarters
- Nakanoshima , Kita-ku, Osaka , Japan
- Country
- Japan
- Circulation
- Morning edition: 3,264,440 Evening edition 892,295 (January-June 2025)
- Website
- www .asahi .com (Japanese), www .asahi .com /ajw (English)
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- daily newspaper
- Country
- Japan
- Headquarters
- Fukuoka
- Industry
- publishing
- Country of origin
- United States
- Official website
- www.asahi.com/ajw
- Image
- Asahi-Shimbun-First-Issue-Front-Page-January 25-1879.png
Show 12 more facts
- title
- Asahi shinbun
- name in kana
- あさひしんぶん
- inception
- 1879-00-00
- newspaper format
- broadsheet
- publication interval
- 0.5
- language of work or name
- English language
- political alignment
- social liberalism
- social media followers
- 600000
- price
- 50
- operating area
- Japan
- Commons category
- Asahi Shimbun
- different from
- Asahi
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Flag of the Asahi Shimbun Company Nakanoshima Festival Tower EastAsahi Shimbun Osaka Head Office is on the 9th to the 12th floors.
The Asahi Shimbun (朝日新聞; IPA: [asaçi ɕiꜜmbɯɴ], lit. 'morning sun newspaper') is a Japanese daily newspaper founded in 1879. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asahi Shimbun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.